PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Steven Souza Jr. returned to camp on Tuesday after a side trip to Seattle to take care of a personal matter.
The Rays' outfielder left camp on Thursday to tend to a "family incident" and returned Monday night.
Now that he's back in camp, Souza is excited to get to work following an offseason of intense conditioning, a direction he chose to travel after running out of gas in the final month of the 2017 season.
"We play six months of baseball, and I played five good months of baseball [in 2017]," said Souza, who hit .